ITALY: Blight to Ford

Commendatore
Cella, General Manager of Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. beamed
cheerfully in his Milan office last week, admitted that negotiations
were successfully under way whereby the aristocratic Isotta company
would manufacture Fords, importing 30% of the parts from the U. S.,
making the rest in an extension of their Milan plant. Undecided is a
scheme whereby Isotta Co., already the largest manufacturer of airplane
motors in Italy, would turn out trimotored Ford planes as well.

Fascists were fearful lest a vital Italian War industry, motor-making,
fall into foreign hands. A blast from Il...